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Declarations, etc., to be Taken by Sheriffs Act 1835

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1835 c. 28
Year1835
Anno Regni GULIELMI IV. Britanniarum Regis,Quinto. An Act for removing Doubts as to the Declaration to be made and Oaths to be taken by Persons appointed to the Office of Sheriff of any City or Town being a County of itself.

(5 & 6 Will. 4) C A P. XXVIII.

[21st August 1835]

'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Fourth, intituled , it is enacted that every Person who should thereafter be placed, elected, or chosen in or to the Office of Mayor, Alderman, Recorder, Bailiff, Town Clerk, or Common Councilman, or in or to any Office of Magistracy, or Place, Trust, or Employment relating to the Government of any City, Corporation, Borough, or Cinque Port withinEngland and Wales , or the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed , should, within One Calendar Month next before or upon his Admission into any of the aforesaid Offices or Trusts, make and subscribe the Declaration therein mentioned; and it is thereby further enacted, that if any Person placed, elected, or chosen into any of the aforesaid Offices or Places should omit or neglect to make and subscribe the said Declaration in manner therein mentioned, such placing, Election, or Choice should be void, and that it should not be lawful for such Person to do any Act in the Execution of the Office or Place into which he should be so chosen, elected, or placed: And whereas Doubts have been entertained whether the aforesaid Provisions may be held to extend to Persons elected or chosen to the Office of Sheriff of any City or Town being a County of itself; and it is expedient that such Doubtsshould be removed:' Be it therefore enacted by the King's...

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